Thank you for this news. Thanks to you and the others whose hard work doubtless made this much progress possible and will keep the ball rolling. There's a part of me that's saying, "Man, at long, long last!!", but that in no way detracts from the quality of your news. Al On 10/9/2010 2:52 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > All, > > I am pleased to announce that speakup has been accepted into the staging > portion of the kernel tree. This means that, starting with linux > 2.6.37-rc1, speakup should be included in the actual linux kernel, in > the "staging" drivers. > > A staging driver is a driver which is not considered mainline quality, > but is included in the linux kernel tree to give it more exposure and > hopefully get it fixed so that it can become mainline. > > What this means is we will have the resources of the entire linux > kernel development community to assist us with getting issues fixed. > > This is definitely a good thing, because it brings us closer to > mainline. > > There will be more on this, because it does affect our development > process and how we will be able to build external modules, etc. > > I will post an update once everything is figured out. > > William > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
